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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Saudi-Israel normalisation seeks the complete surrender of the Palestinians</h1>
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<a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/6-author/dr-amira-abo-el-fetouh/">Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh</a> - September 25, 2023<br></div>
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<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was very clear about Saudi
Arabia’s inclination towards normalising with the Zionist enemy in his
speech at the UN General Assembly: Israel, he claimed, is “at the cusp”
of normalisation with the Kingdom. Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed
Bin Salman said that his country is close to normalisation. This
suggests that there has been contact and negotiations between them
behind closed doors, and that they will announce an agreement soon.</p>
<p>It would seem, therefore, that Saudi Arabia is about to sell the
Palestinian issue very cheaply. A normalisation agreement with the
Saudis will embolden Netanyahu to annex the occupied West Bank,
establish even more <a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/02/israels-apartheid-against-palestinians-a-cruel-system-of-domination-and-a-crime-against-humanity/">apartheid</a> with the Palestinians, expand illegal settlements and encourage Jewish-settler terrorism.</p>
<p>Speculation has been rife about this normalisation since Bin Salman
became crown prince. He made a secret visit to Israel in 2016 and met
senior Israeli politicians. The news was leaked; Israel usually exposes
Arab rulers and its contacts with them. Israeli media published a photo
of Bin Salman’s aircraft at Ben Gurion Airport in 2016, and he opened
Saudi airspace to Israeli planes last year; Israeli officials and
business people have visited the Kingdom. All of this pointed to Saudi
Arabia heading towards normalisation, with the only thing holding it
back was the pampering it was receiving; there was never any shame that
the Custodian of the two Holy Mosques in Makkah and Madinah was courting
Israel.</p>
<p>Bin Salman was behind Donald Trump’s “deal of the century”, which was revealed by Western media, including the <em>American Conservative</em>
magazine affiliated with supporters of the Republican Party. It
explained the details of the meeting between Palestinian Authority
President Mahmoud Abbas and Bin Salman, in which the prince is reported
to have said that Abbas has forgotten about Jerusalem once and for all,
and the State of Palestine will be in the Gaza Strip, supported by land
of unspecified size in the Sinai Peninsula.</p>
<blockquote><p>countries that speak Arabic and whose religion is Islam, but whose rulers are Zionists loyal to Israel</p></blockquote>
<p>This normalisation agreement will change the features of the Arab
world. It will not be Arab, but purely Zionist, with countries that
speak Arabic and whose religion is Islam, but whose rulers are Zionists
loyal to Israel. This is what Netanyahu called the “New Middle East” at
the UN, which Zionist politicians, most notably Shimon Peres, have
dreamt of. There is neither an Arab world nor a Palestinian issue on the
map that Netanyahu waved around, but rather a regional power — the
apartheid state of Israel — supported by the US-led West, that will fill
its coffers with Saudi oil money in exchange for a concession to allow
uranium enrichment. Bin Salman said that his country wants to engage in a
nuclear project, but it will not attempt to manufacture a nuclear bomb
unless Iran is allowed to do so.</p>
<div id="gmail-attachment_639974" class="gmail-wp-caption"><p><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-639974" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_7012-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1" alt="Israel: normalisation with Saudi Arabia a 'matter of time - Cartoon [Sabaaneh/Middle East Monitor]" width="410" height="255" class="gmail-moz-reader-block-img" style="margin-right: 0px;"></p><p id="gmail-caption-attachment-639974" class="gmail-wp-caption-text"><font size="1">Israel: normalisation with Saudi Arabia a ‘matter of time – Cartoon [Sabaaneh/Middle East Monitor]</font></p></div><p>Netanyahu’s
statements after his meeting with US President Joe Biden indicate the
possibilities of arranging a US-Israeli agreement that addresses
Riyadh’s three demands: a nuclear project, Washington’s pledge to defend
the Kingdom, and some gains for the Palestinians in the two-state
solution. This “solution” is the huge lie that has always been used to
cover the shameful deals and suspicious agreements with the Zionist
enemy.</p>
<p>There is no doubt that both Biden and Netanyahu need to help each
other. With a Saudi-Israel normalisation deal Biden will save the
nightmare coalition, as <em>Haaretz</em> described Netanyahu’s
government, and Netanyahu will exploit it by using Israel’s influence on
representatives in Congress, whether Republicans or Democrats, to agree
to the Saudi conditions with the exception of course, of the two-state
solution. This does not matter to Bin Salman, as he tries to whitewash
his image in the eyes of the Arab people. Ultimately all that matters to
him are the strategic goals that support Saudi Arabia’s position
regionally and globally, after his reputation took a hit with his failed
war in Yemen, the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, and his country’s
blockade of Qatar.</p>
<p><strong>READ: </strong><a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20230921-israel-says-framework-saudi-normalisation-deal-possible-by-early-2024/"><strong>Israel says framework Saudi normalisation deal possible by early 2024</strong></a></p>
<p>Normalisation with Israel will achieve US goals by erasing the
Palestinian issue from the equation of regional and international
relations. The integration of Israel into the region requires the
abolition of legitimate Palestinian rights, as Washington works to
transform the Middle East into a political, commercial and military
corridor between Asia and Europe. Hence, it hopes to end Arab hostility
towards Israel, as the apartheid state becomes the power that manages
the regional security and economy, and controls its wealth.</p>
<p>The idea of normalisation with the Arab world and isolating the
Palestinians so that they surrender is not new. It was common after the
1948 Nakba, but the start of the Palestinian revolution made it more
difficult, and so it was necessary to remove the Palestine Liberation
Organisation from Lebanon. The first Palestinian intifada in 1987
flipped the equation, while the defeat of Iraq was the gateway to an
attempt to subjugate the Palestinians through the cursed <a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20230922-oslo-accords-the-big-illusion-and-the-false-dream/">Oslo Accords</a>
in 1993. Normalisation returned strongly with Trump’s presidency and
his success with the 2020 Abraham Accords, which the Zionist Arab
regimes rushed to sign, surprising even the Israelis.</p>
<p>It was thus confirmed to Washington that the Abraham Accords, which
will soon be embraced by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, is the best
solution to force the surrender and complete submission of the Arab
people, including the Palestinians.</p>
<p><strong>OPINION: </strong><a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20230921-saudi-arabia-does-not-care-about-palestine-or-jerusalem-it-cares-about-israel/"><strong>Saudi Arabia does not care about Palestine or Jerusalem; it cares about Israel</strong></a></p>
<p>The views expressed in this article belong to the author and do not
necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Middle East Monitor.</p>
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